They were generally similar in appearance, size, and thickness to a pale specimen of "Old Virginia" buckwheat cakes, and had a taste which resembled a combination of rancid lard and crab apples.
The manservant who answered the door had recommended an Italian lady who took paying guests, and Olive had gone to see her, but her rooms were small, dark and dingy, and they smelt overpoweringly of sandal wood and rancid oil.
The English girl had milk with her coffee and some slices of bread spread with rancid butter.
But when she decided to crawl up into my lap, my interest began to wane, for she exuded such a concentrated 'essence of Mongol' and rancid mutton fat that I was almost suffocated.
After the black fluid had boiled vigorously for ten minutes each one filled his wooden eating bowl, put in a great chunk of rancid butter, and then a quantity of finely-ground meal.
To the roofs of the lodges were hung a number of crooked bladders, filled withrancid seal oil, used as a sort of condiment with the dry and unsavory sturgeon.
To choose salt butter, plunge a knife into it, and if, when drawn out, the blade smells rancid or unpleasant, the butter is bad.
Butter, with regard to its dietetic properties, may be regarded nearly in the light of vegetable oils and animal fats; but it becomes sooner rancid than most other fat oils.
If any member of the family tasted of these sacred fish he was sentenced by the heads of the family to drink a cupful of rancid oil dregs as a punishment and to stay the wrath of Moso.
Any one eating or injuring such things had either to be sham baked in an unheated oven, or drink a quantity of rancid oil as penance and a purgative.
If only they are not drenched with rancid butter, their own native excellence makes itself known in most of the ordinary modes of preparation.
Good butter is pale yellow, uniform throughout the whole mass, and free from rancid taste or odor.
On account of the large proportion of fatty matter contained in maize, it acquires, if kept for some time and unpleasant, rancid taste, occasioned by the usual change which takes place in fat when exposed to the atmosphere.
Poor, tainted, or rancid butter should not be used as food in any form.
Slices of potato fried in rancid lard will in a great measure absorb the unpleasant taste.
Strong, rancid mutton feels spongy, and does not rise again easily, when dented.
They seemed good-natured and inoffensive, but are not free from the vice of drunkenness; they consume quantities of tea prepared with rancid lard.
Three times he slipped upon a rancid bacon-rind and almost fell; and the third time, as he plunged across the oozing drain, a dog dashed right between his feet.
In fancy he could almost smell the queer, rancid odor of the crimson bloom crushed beneath the feet of the farmers' boys who cut the butter-yellow mustard from among the bearded grain.
Davy, who supposes, that if rancid butter were well washed in an alkaline solution, the alkali would separate the acid from the butter.
If that be the case, might not rancid butter be sweetened by mixing with it some substance that would take the acid from it?
They live in a simple manner, drink sour whey and milk, eat rancid butter, fish, mutton, and occasionally the lichens called Iceland moss.
To protect themselves from the biting cold they smear their faces with rancid butter, which, catching the smoke and dust, adds to the effectiveness as well as the strength of the odor.
About half way we stopped for about an hour for the bearers to partake of a light entertainment of "ghee and chupatties" -- otherwise, rancidbutter and cakes of flour and water.
Pasteurized milk under the action of the butyric acid bacteria undergoes a gassy fermentation, developing a pronounced acidity and the disagreeable odor of butyric acid, which resembles that of rancid butter.
If the powder is to be kept for long periods, skim milk must be used, since the fat slowly undergoes changes which cause it to have a rancid odor.
Spirit of wine dissolves out a small portion, which, on evaporation, leaves a thick oleo-resinous substance, having a rancid smell.
Rancid bacon, is dulness of perception and unsatisfactory states will worry you.
To eat rancid butter, denotes a competency acquired through struggles of manual labor.
It was made with rancid fat, bad water, and boiled in the sea-brine.
It somewhat resembled rancid butter mixed with crumb of bread.
To this the indolence of the inhabitants is a greater obstacle than the rapidity with which the oil becomes rancid in the amygdaliform seeds.
The air was rancid with the odor of wet, steaming clothing.
I remembered reading of people suffering from hunger when navigating the ocean in open boats, and how much a flying-fish, or a booby, or a lump of rancid grease, had contributed to keep body and soul together.
The complexion is the Abyssinian cafe au lait, contrasting strongly with the sooty skins of the coast; and the hair, plentifully anointed with rancid butter, hangs from the head in lank corkscrews the colour of a Russian pointer's coat.
Dismounting at the door we shook hands with him, were led through the idle mob into a smoky closet contrived against the inside wall, and were regaled with wheaten bread steeped in honey and rancid butter.
The Bedouins, true specimens of the "greasy African race," wear locks dripping with rancid butter, and accuse their citizen brethren of being more like birds than men.
The smell of rancid oil choked them, yet they could breathe without coughing, and could rest their smarting eyes.
By the ending of it, he had redeemed a somewhat rancid life.
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